After an unlucky day ... I am rich!

Last Saturday, my ex group members had a group project meeting over at my house because my sis is in the group. It was fun watching them discussing while I had nothing to do. I played a little bit of Left for Dead in my room to distract them ha ha. I also joined in the discussion for a bit but didn’t provide much … I was just messing around lah heh. Sorry guys!

After discussion, I wanted to go watch Own Time Own Target, a play about NS life but nobody wanted to go. =( So the 3 guys (including me) went for dinner at Century Square instead and supposed to fish at Bedok Jetty after that. Too bad it rained after we ate and another plan of the day is ruined. We changed the fishing trip to a bowling one instead, and went all the way to Safra Mount Faber to bowl as Wayne’s gang of friends wanted to bowl there. There was a long queue there, and while waiting I wasted $10!

While waiting for our turn, Shawn and I went on a UFO catcher spree. We kept trying our luck on these money sucking machines and changed our notes to coins several times. I think the cashier must be laughing at us. Catching those cute little plushies are hard enough without any distractions but it got more difficult when 2 small kids stood beside us and repeatedly chanted the words “Na Bu Dao” – translation: You can’t get it. With this unwelcomed distraction, we ended up with nothing after spending around 10 bucks each! Usually I will get something but Saturday wasn’t a good day for me. I think the boys are hired by the management!

The bad luck continues in the bowling alley where I got the lowest score for both games and had to treat the guys supper lol. I suck at bowling but occasionally will get okay scores due to luck ... not on Saturday though heh. We ended our outing with supper at Macau Café paid by yours truly, the unlucky guy for the day. I also got sick that day … fever and flu but not H1N1 I think. Don't worry, you won't get infected after reading this if I have H1N1. (wah super lame .. sorry)

Luckily for me, the theory of good and bad luck has once again showed its magic and I had a pretty good week after that. I got richer!! =)
How my bad luck turned into some extra cash …

1) The next day (Sunday), I won 4D!!

I was reading Ms Chor Lor’s blog when I came across this post: OMY interviews Mcchorlor on the SgBlogAwards. In that post, she gave out 3 lucky 4d numbers for her readers to buy. I really went to buy all numbers forwards and backwards and one of the numbers won me $60!! The number 4060 came out as a consolation prize on Sunday and I bought $1 big. =) My father who bought the numbers for me, went to buy $3 big himself, and he won $180! Thank you Ms Chor Lor!! Huat Ah!

2) I received my first Nuffnang cheque

The cheque is not for the ads, but for a contest I won recently. The contest is about taking photos of interesting locations in Singapore and explaining why you want an internet connection there. This is my blog entry for the contest – Interesting Places in Singapore I wish had Internet Connection. I won one of the consolation prizes, which is $50. Although I didn’t get the top 3 prizes which are really good, the top prize being a macbook and some cash, at least I won something heh. "No fish, prawn also okay" =P

To check out all the fabulous winning entries, go here. Some of the entries have videos! I didn’t know we could use that, but even if I knew I don’t think I would be able to make a better video then them heh ... Before this contest, I also won the Nike Mini contest. To see what I won click here. =) It has been around 6 months since I joined Nuffnang and I’m a happy Nuffnanger heh. So many intereting contests to join! For bloggers out there who are not under Nuffnang, you can join them at Nuffnang.com! Thank you Nuffnang, Alvin, Shawn and Wayne for this win.

3) I emptied my Golden Pillow and got quite a lot of money =)

Not to be confused with a certain channel 8 hit drama of the same name, the Golden Pillow I have is a “gold” piggy bank or should I say bun-ny bank which I got as a free gift when I ordered food delivery from Golden Pillow 933. This Golden Pillow which I have is actually made after one of the dishes they have. I have been inserting $1 coins into this pillow for around 4 months and decided that it was time to take out the rubber protection below and let it all out. This has been my routine for the past 2 years and the satisfaction of counting my golden coins is priceless. =)

The routine also includes adding additional gold coins from my father pot of gold he he. I will dig out every $1 coin from the “coin pot” in his room. He doesn’t know about this and I don’t think he cares too ha ha. The coins are for all to use anyway. =P

The combination of my coins and the reinforcements from The Pot of Gold and Silver resulted in quite a lot of $1 coins.

Total coins I gathered = 159 $1 coins = 159 x 1 = $159!!! Around 80% of them are from my Golden Pillow.

Look at those lovely coins stacked up in tens. =) The $1 are then packed in 20s and ready to be changed at the ma ma shop downstairs =) I put the leftover $1 coins back into my Golden Pillow and the process of saving $1 coins is repeated.

Hey! Why is there a frog there?

The cute frog container is actually ….

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It is a new experiment I trying out currently in beta stage. Besides saving $1 coins, I’m trying to do the same thing for $2 notes and will use the SAKE SUSHI piggy/froggy bank to contain these notes. I only have $4 there at the moment lol, but will try harder inthe future. Maybe I will start saving $5 notes when I start work later this year lol. I love this cute looking froggy bank from Sakae Sushi which I got when I ordered food from them last year (I think).

Speaking of Sakae Sushi, I just ordered food from them this week.

I ordered a terriyaki chicken don and a chawanmushi and my sis ordered salad, soft shell crab temaki and shishamos. We didn’t have sushi but the place (my house) was a good place to eat and the food was very good too heh (refer to their slogan). We usually order bentos but once in a while we would order something else for some variety. They have quite a lot of food available for home delivery and yes, they even have pizzas heh. I have tried the teriyaki chicken pizza and it’s really good. =) Definitely more home delivery orders from Sake Sushi in the future.

Good food and extra income. A great week to make up for the unlucky Saturday I had heh. Total extra income this week = $60 + $50 + $159 = $269 …. not bad. I will try to spend the money wisely heh.

Life always has its ups and downs and now I’m even in terms of the luck department, what’s next? Lucky or unlucky?

I bought 4D for this Saturday and Sunday, will I strike again?

P.S: I have recovered from my fever and flu after days of panadols and 7 ups. =)

(Images Taken from: My iPhone, my digital camera, Singapore Pools)

My Nike Mini Contest Prize

2 weeks ago I mentioned that 3 lucky things happened. If you have missed it, here is the post: Lucky 1, 2, 3. Anyways in the post I mentioned that I knew that whenever I was too happy something bad will happen, and my karma theory is proven right yet again!! =( Since that post, my beloved Newcastle United lost 2 matches in a row and got relegated to the Coca Cola Championship. The stock I sold, went up like crazy after I sold it due to a takeover by another company, I could have sold it for 1k plus dollars more if I waited for 1 more week sian. Oh well, at least one of the lucky things that happened is not reversible, my Nike Mini Contest win. =)

I received my prize last week ... Although I can't use them as they are all Nike Women's products, I was glad that I won it. Here are the $300 worth of products I received courtesy of Nike and Nuffnang!

The Nike plastic bag with the prizes in it

The Nike Air Swift Sister in the box

Front view of the shoe (not bad looking I think) Got pink here and there, girls sure like

The hoodie and ermm track pants (don't know what it is)?

The nice red short sleeved jacket hoodie thingy

The dunno what is it called long pants thingy. Its stretchable. I think its a Nike Women's capris.

Those are the 3 products I got as my prize for the contest. Since I can't use them, I will be giving them to my kind future jogging mates. We were supposed to start jogging this week, but we changed it to next week as they are not free, hope they don't pang seh me. Actually, I have already passed the shoes to one of my jogging mates, Jasmine!! Maybe she take already then don't jog with me ha ha. Like I mentioned in the image I used for the Nike Mini contest, I really need to jog and lose lots of weight before the graduation ceremony! I'm too lazy to jog alone, so I hope my jogging mates will give me motivation to jog on a regular basis. I already bought my jogging shoes, hope it does not collect dust.

Cheers to a healthier me!!

Lucky 1, 2 and 3 Newcastle, Stock, Nike Mini Contest

The past 2 days have been kind to me. 3 lucky things happened during the 2 days and I'm feeling rather happy now. I guess this kinda makes up for the mediocre past few months I have been going through.

Lucky Number 1:

Newcastle finally won a match and score some goals!

Yesterday I had this post about preparing for the biggest match of my life. I think my jersey and red underwear wearing, getting my dog kimi to wear her jersey and forcing my friend Alvin to wear a Newcastle United Jersey has played a small part in Newcastle United winning their first match in like 10 games? He he. The players really played very well yesterday, never giving up even when they were 1 goal down so early in match. Newcastle United showed great fighting spirit and eventually won 3-1 (I predicted 3-0 =D)! Kudos to all the players involved, the fans at St James' Park for their superb support (the flags waived around the whole stadium is spectacular!) and of course the one and only Alan Shearer and his management team. Its been a long time since I've seen Shearer so happy. The cheers for him during and after the match made my hair stand.

The 3 nufc scorers of the night: Steven Taylor, Obafemi Martins and Peter Lovenkrands!

Newcastle United is finally out of the bottom 3! With 2 games left, their fate is finally on their own hands. I hope they can repeat the performance and win again this Saturday at home against Fulham!

Lucky Number 2:

Finally managed to sell off my stock.

I shall not say what stock it is, but those who are familiar with this chart would know heh. I bought this particular stock on October thinking that it was cheap then, and right after I bought it, it fell like no tomorrow (together with many other counters lol). Luckily for me, it recently went back up to slightly less than the price I bought it for and being the hum ji (cowardly) guy, and constant persuasion of my father (he keep asking me to sell for the past few weeks and it kept going up he he), I decided to sell it off. The dividends earned during the period I had the stock can cover the transaction fees. Will invest wisely in the future and not have the gambling mentality when I start working after graduation. The way I played last time was something like once my friend Caleb said in the past about some "investors" ... playing Da Xiao lol.

Lucky Number 3:

I received a sms today informing me that I won the Nike Mini contest I participated on February!

This was my entry to the competition. To view the post click here.

I joined Nuffnang a few months ago and have yet to receive my first cheque. However, joining Nuffnang and being a Glitterati member, gave me opportunities to participate in their contests too. This is first and only competition I have joined so far and I'm so happy that I have won it. The prize is $300 worth of Nike products! I will treat it as actually earning some money (he he) and will use it as a motivation to join future competitions and work towards getting that first cheque =). I will be patient and will continue blogging no matter what happens. Thank you Nuffnang and Nike! For those who have not visited Nike Women's website, go check it out (nikewomen.com.sg)! Its very cool!

(Okay I will try not to be too happy now cause I know that whenever I'm too happy something bad will happen. I guess its karma, you win some you lose some.)

P.S: Unfortunately I missed last week's episode of Fighting Spiders (anyone knows what happened?). This week's episode is funny lah. Soon Lee and Charlie are both chee ko peks, starring at Sam's neh neh. Peter is in love with Sam (who i think looks pretty even in tomboy wear) and shows his brave ang moh confidence and Soon Lee is as hum ji as me! Next week we get to see Tony's second love interest Susie Woon!

(Images Taken From: Nike Women, Teamtalk.com, Titan 24, Singapore Exchange)

Nike Contest - My Nike Mini

Everyone who knows me know that I'm a cheapskate who loves good deals and freebies, so its no surprise that I love joining competitions especially those that are interesting. I recently joined Nuffnang and found this Nike contest celebrating Nike Women's new launch ... cool. Seems like this competition is not limited to girls so I guess I will have a crack at it. If the prize turns out to be something for girls, I will give it to my sister who will definitely love it! Jia Yi, if you are reading this, this is for you! (If the prize is Nike Women's products he he)

The competition requires me to take a screenshot of the Nike Mini I created and allows me to add decorate the background. I love using Photoshop for my school project visuals and this competition gives me a chance to showcase my amateurish self taught skills lol. In case you are wondering what a Nike Mini is, its a super cute character that you can create on Nike Women's website. Link below :)

Okay, now that I have announced my intentions for this post, this is my enhanced Nike Mini Screenshot made with the magic of Photoshop.


Blogger seems to have some problems with displaying pictures uploaded through them recently, so I have uploaded it to Photobucket just in case. Here is the link . (I might upload all pics to Photobucket from now on)

I like girls who like pink things so I made my Nike Mini very "pinky" lol. Nice pink hair with pink shoes and a jacket with a touch of pink. Her name is Jiahui which is also my name (lucky my name can be guy or girl's name). Since I am currently trying to lose weight at the moment in time for my graduation, the exercise program I created is called "Project Graduation Exercise." I think I may have to follow the exercise program I created for this competition soon as my weight has not gone down this week after my special diet plan lol. Okay I admit I cheated a little and ate dinner on some days I'm not supposed to and only use the Mindwave program once. =P. I am so going to add exercising to my plan starting from next week. I need to motivate myself to get my fat ass moving, I think I need an exercise buddy!! To girls staying in Tampines please email me to apply for the position of my exercising buddy. (Not hopeful anyne will apply heh)

Okay enough of my self hating, here are some things you can do at the Nike Women website.

Get Started

Create you own Nike Mini!

My Nike Mini, Female Jiahui =)

Choose you exercising program

Tailor your workout

Compete with your exercise buddies! Okay I cheated, have not done any of the exercises yet.

Videos are provided to teach you how to perform each exercise.

There is even an Iphone App to download, how cool is that! (I love my iPhone & Nike for making the app)

Screenshots from my iPhone =)


“Nike Zoom Sister One+, The ultimate training shoe for women”

Create your own Nike Mini at http://nikewomen.com.sg ! (You will be greeted with a really cool video!) There are lots of other stuff there too!!